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'Kennedy's Coup' signaled regime change doom loop for US
A look back at Diem's assassination, setting off the Vietnam War — who says Washington isn't led by the same self-destructive characters throughout time?
February 16, 2026
A look back at Diem's assassination, setting off the Vietnam War — who says Washington isn't led by the same self-destructive characters throughout time?
Trump appears intent on starting another war on Tehran, this time with greater risk of regional chaos and nuclear proliferation
The president went from praising ‘the wars we never get into’ to seeing how many the US can get into, and prominent members of his base are eating it up
Every violent protest — of which there have been several over the last decade — takes a little more away from the government's legitimacy
A coup likely set unto motion by Kennedy memo ended with the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in fall of 1963. Two years later, the US was fully at war.
Trump's attack on Venezuela leaves a power vacuum and a potentially huge price tag for the US, but lots of opportunities for Wall Street
